Policarpio Martir Quotes & Sayings

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure. — Robert Bresson

Would you rather be right or free? — Byron Katie

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms. — Annie Dillard

Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice. — Thomas Harris

Others see obstacles; I see opportunities. — Darlene Quinn

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. — Anne Bronte

Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them. — William Boyd

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer. — Tim Pratt

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives. — Thomas Merton